Trying to head off a major outbreak of disease, health workers combing the capital’s alleys and beaches have collected the bodies of more than 1,000 people killed in fighting earlier this summer.

The workers and Red Cross volunteers have exhumed shallow graves and removed corpses littering the city after two months of fighting that ended in late May.

Dr. Isaac Moses, Liberia’s chief pathologist and the organizer of the clean-up effort, said Tuesday that 1,068 bodies had been removed so far and many more were likely to be found.